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GREGORY, PHILIPPA
other queen (abridged) Book - Audio CD
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MaryisQueenofScotlandbutshehasbeenforcedtofleeherlandandtakerefugeinanEnglandthatisruledbyhercousinElizabeth.ButEngland,precariousinitsProtestantstate,setagainstthemightypowersofSpain,FranceandRome,doesn'tneedacharismaticCatholicfigureheadatlarge.SoElizabeth'schiefadvisor,Cecil,devisesaplaninwhichMarywillliveunderguardwithhistrustedaccomplice:BessofHardwick.
Bessisaself–madewoman,ashrewdsurvivor.Sheisnewlymarriedtoherfourthandmostdistinguishedhusband,theEarlofShrewsbury.ButwhatmarriagecanwithstandthecharmsofMaryOrthethreatofrebellionthatshealwayscarriesMarymustwaitinherprivilegedimprisonmentforthereturntoScotlandandherinfantson;butwaitingisnotthesameasdoingnothing.
Withhercharacteristiccombinationofsuperbstorytellingandauthentichistoricalbackground,PhilippaGregorybringstolifethisperiodofgreatchange,inarivetingtaleofbetrayal,loyalty,politicsandpassion.
Bessisaself–madewoman,ashrewdsurvivor.Sheisnewlymarriedtoherfourthandmostdistinguishedhusband,theEarlofShrewsbury.ButwhatmarriagecanwithstandthecharmsofMaryOrthethreatofrebellionthatshealwayscarriesMarymustwaitinherprivilegedimprisonmentforthereturntoScotlandandherinfantson;butwaitingisnotthesameasdoingnothing.
Withhercharacteristiccombinationofsuperbstorytellingandauthentichistoricalbackground,PhilippaGregorybringstolifethisperiodofgreatchange,inarivetingtaleofbetrayal,loyalty,politicsandpassion.
Details
Released: Wed 1 Oct 2008
Catalogue Number: 9780007266371
- Narrator: Emilia Fox
- Discs: 5
- Height (m): 0.125
- Running Time: 300 minutes
- Width (m): 0.142
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